The Chart Park estate in Dorking was created by a merchant, Henry Talbot, who acquired a house called The Vineyard in 1746. Talbot enlarged the house, purchased adjoining lands, including Chart, and renamed the house Chart Park.
He died in 1784, leaving the estate to Captain Thomas Cornwall, RN, husband of his only daughter Elizabeth. Cornwall died in 1796 and Elizabeth in 1802 when she bequeathed the estate to her friend and relative Sir Charles Talbot, bart, of the Mickleham branch of the Talbot family.
He died in 1812 whereupon his executors sold the estate in 1813-14. The house and lands were bought by Henry Philip Hope who gave them to his brother Thomas Hope, owner of the neighbouring Deepdene. Thomas Hope demolished the house and merged the lands with the Deepdene estate.
Read more about Chart Park in this Museum published book.
Doris and Edith Mercer have skilfully used surviving documents to create a vivid picture of a lost Gothik Revival mansion for which no contemporary record has been found.
This book has 60 pages and black and white pictures and drawings.
Paperback. Published 1993.
Priced at £6.50. Buy the book online here.
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